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The 2025 Global Humanitarian Overview indicated a placeholder financial requirement of US$2 billion for humanitarian response in 2025. While the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian...

This Priority Humanitarian Response and Critical Funding Gaps document incorporates the latest analysis, including the results from the recent Belg (spring rains) seasonal assessment, and critical...

Overview Since the publication of the first Priority Humanitarian Response and Critical Funding Gaps document in March 2024, identifying critical funding gaps of US$998 million, the humanitarian...

In addition to dealing with past disasters and conflict, humanitarians are mounting a new response to El Niño-driven drought. The plan targets 15.5 million people, including 10.4 million with food needs.

Humanitarian needs are immense and they continue to grow year after year. Climatic shocks such as drought and floods are recurring events, but the frequency and duration of droughts is increasing.

Crisis Overview The first reiteration of the Drought Response Plan was developed in April 2022 as an extract of the Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) for 2022 using the information available...

Response Plan Overview More than 20 million people are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia in 2022, nearly three quarters of them are women and children. The 2022 Ethiopia...

Executive Summary The first Northern Ethiopia Response Plan was released in May 2021 to address the increased humanitarian needs which arose in the Tigray region after conflict broke out on 4...

CONTEXT According to the National Meteorology Agency’s weather forecast for September 2020, the kiremt rain is expected to continue in all zones of Tigray, Benishangul Gumuz, Gambella, East and West...

*This Annex presents revisions due to the recent changes to the humanitarian context, and should be read as part of the 2020 HRP. Only the Needs and Risk Analysis and the Cluster Plans of the annual...

Number of people affected - 470,163 Number of people displaced - 301,284 Requirements - US$30.7M Available - US$5.1M Gap - US$25.6 M Context According to the National Meteorology Agency’s mid-season...

Foreword by the Humanitarian Coordinator Similar to 2018, the year 2019 saw positive socio-political developments in Ethiopia. At the same time, the Government of Ethiopia and its humanitarian...

Overview The humanitarian context in Ethiopia continues to evolve rapidly, mainly due to pockets of inter-communal conflict across parts of Ethiopia. As of January 2019, around 3 million people...

OVERVIEW OF THE CRISIS In 2018, Ethiopia was spared significant climate-related calamities such as the droughts of previous years. However, the significant spike in conflict-induced displacement,...

OVERVIEW In the second half of the year, Ethiopia has faced with an unprecedented surge of inter- communal conflict in Gedeo zone (SNNP region) and West Guji zone (Oromia region), which at its...

Overview The priority funding gaps presented here are intended to inform urgently required funding decisions by donors. The priorities have been reviewed and endorsed by the UN Humanitarian...

Overview The priority funding gaps presented here are intended to inform urgently required funding decisions by donors, and a new allocation from the Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund (anticipated balance...

The well-managed, government-led, lifesaving response will need to be sustained across southern and eastern parts of the country through much of 2018.

This alert has been prepared as a complement to the indicative humanitarian needs and requirements for Ethiopia presented in the 2018 Global Humanitarian Overview. In advance of the finalization of...

The 2017 HRD presents prioritises plans in water and sanitation, agriculture, relief food, nutrition, health, education, protection, and shelter and non-food items in the affected areas.